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When smart companies do dumb things

Heard the big announcement about Yahoo's new music service?

Check it out at (the logical) http://yahoo.com/music/

Interested in being a publisher with Google's AdSense (partner to the AdWords program which accounts for >90% of the company's revenue)? Try http://adsense.google.com/ (which would match adwords.google.com and labs.google.com, etc.)

What, those URLs don't work? They don't even *forward* to the appropriate page?

My point exactly.

Is it just me, or is that incredibly, massively dumb?

P.S. -- The correct URLs are http://music.yahoo.com/ and http://google.com/adsense

- Blathered by Adam on Thursday, May 12, 2005 at 15:39 [ Permalink | Trackback ]
- Filed under Business and consumers • Geekery • Google
- Commented on by 5 folks so far. Scroll down and see for yourself (and join in the conversation!)

Comment from nix [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	adsense.google.com DOES redirect you now, but yahoo.com/music still doesn’t… “Smart” companies do smart things - sometimes. - Posted on Saturday, October 15, 2005 at 6:34 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from Maria loves pictures [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Yes I agree with you, subdomain adresses arn’t locigal from the user perspective. I guess Yahoo devs like to have things to be placed on separate servers. - Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 at 10:44 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from John Buy a Business [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Exactly, you are right, But for yahoo we can not say any thing as it not following any SEO guidelines of Google. - Posted on Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at 23:35 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from Chaitanya Jobs in Romania [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Hey John, You are wrong, If yahoo does not follow Google webmaster Guidelines, it will not get place in Google SERP’s. - Posted on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 5:37 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from member JJtheSmartGuy [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Why do you all are putting yourself to get cheap traffic from yahoo, i have never got healthy traffic from yahoo, well i daily get more than 1 k visits from Google itself, but not much more from yahoo. I dont want to do work on my site for yahoo, if i am happy with Google than always will. Yahoo will automatically show my website in listing after couple of months, i had seen the same for my other website. - Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 18:45 [ Permalink to this comment ]

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